diff --git a/src/platform/nm-netlink.c b/src/platform/nm-netlink.c
index eb3f1a9f82..9a2639235e 100644
--- a/src/platform/nm-netlink.c
+++ b/src/platform/nm-netlink.c
@@ -366,18 +366,6 @@ nlmsg_put (struct nl_msg *n, uint32_t pid, uint32_t seq,
 	return nlh;
 }
 
-uint64_t
-nla_get_u64 (const struct nlattr *nla)
-{
-	uint64_t tmp = 0;
-
-	if (   nla
-	    && nla_len (nla) >= sizeof (tmp))
-		memcpy (&tmp, nla_data (nla), sizeof (tmp));
-
-	return tmp;
-}
-
 size_t
 nla_strlcpy (char *dst,
              const struct nlattr *nla,
diff --git a/src/platform/nm-netlink.h b/src/platform/nm-netlink.h
index 3c2c784ad6..840e56d8e4 100644
--- a/src/platform/nm-netlink.h
+++ b/src/platform/nm-netlink.h
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@
 #include <linux/rtnetlink.h>
 #include <linux/genetlink.h>
 
+#include "nm-utils/unaligned.h"
+
 /*****************************************************************************/
 
 #define NLMSGERR_ATTR_UNUSED            0
@@ -201,7 +203,13 @@ nla_get_s32 (const struct nlattr *nla)
 	return *((const int32_t *) nla_data (nla));
 }
 
-uint64_t nla_get_u64 (const struct nlattr *nla);
+static inline uint64_t
+nla_get_u64 (const struct nlattr *nla)
+{
+	nm_assert (nla_len (nla) >= sizeof (uint64_t));
+
+	return unaligned_read_ne64 (nla_data (nla));
+}
 
 static inline char *
 nla_get_string (const struct nlattr *nla)